Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-17
Deserving Words Wen Spoken.


The fair now in progress at Sacramento
is the most completely Illustrative of the
resources of the State that has yet been
held. In no other part of the world could
it be duplicated except by drawing upon
the products of many countries. The
effects of clement climate as well as of
generous soil, are upon all the items which
make up the grand total Of the exhibit.
Climate is reflected in the 1.-THE racers and
the sturdy roadsters, early developed and
long-lived by the absence Of austere
weather. 1t is in the beef breeds of
cattle, Juicy from hook TO horn, and sun
shine colors the cream in the handsome
udders of the Jersey and Holstein cows.
Climate is in the silky crimp Of the heeces
OF the oily mcrinoes, and in the long and
delicate staple of the long-wooled sheep
descended from the English downs
1t is in the color of the cocks
comb and the iris of the peacock's feather,
in the fiery wattles Of the gobbler and the
down upon duck and drake and goose and
gander. 1t is in the juices Of the sugar
beet and enriches the potato and the wide
variety of the products of the garden. 1t
| makes the small grains as delicate as the
minute creations of confectionery, and il
sweetens the grape and paints the stone
| fruits until they seem too beautiful TO de-
your except by the eve. Climate fills the
Il.
its flavor delicate and nutty and climate
| enables California to show side by side the
banana, the date, fig and orange. 1t per-
mits the growth here Of the pomegranate
| and melon, the almond and walnut. And
over all the show of stock, and vegetable
| and mineral maryeIs, is the canopy of
flowers which bloom every day in the year,
and lend their mingled perfumes to make
aromatic the health-preserving air.
| We solicit for this great fair even greater
! attention than that general interest with
which its predecessors have been received.
| There are III this State now ten times as
many strangers as have visited ii at this
| season'in any other year since the first
coming of gold-seekers. They should be
attracted to the fair by the magnetism of
| interest III it shown by our own people
| 1t is California's Harvest Home, and
| where else on earth does any country
| bring home such varied, useful and en-
| chanting harvest! II was feared by some
| that the concurrent occurrence of the Me
chanics Fair in this city would cripple
| both exhibitions, but it is not so. The at
tendance at each is multi piled many times
over what it was before.
\ sooun at Sacramento is especially
pleasant now. The turf events, under the
| auspices of the State Agricultural Society,
| are very fine, and leave nothing TO be de-
sired further as an exhibit of the blood
and breeding, speed, spirit and bottom of
| ply a wholesome element of sport and en-
tertainment, which never ceases to he at
| tractive, while the other features induce
enthusiastic study of the capabilities of
| the STATE.
Every man in California who can leave
his business for the trip should go to the
fair aud take his family with him. No
State is worth the paper on which its map
| is printed unless its people have confidence
in it. 4 man may brood over his own
| patch, and lacking thrift or courage get
morbid and see things blue. But let him
! get away to where the results of the toll
| and enterprise of others are massed III at
tractive show, and the fog lifts from his
spirit, and he is inspired TO tap the same
resources which they have guided to the
production of such wonders.
No man can see what is there without
/ receiving such an inspiration as Moses
| carried back to Israel after he knew Of the
| Promised Land.